1 debhelper (8.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3 * dh_clean: Remove debhelper logs for all packages, including packages
4 not being acted on. dh can sometimes produce such logs by accident
5 when passed bundled options (like "-Nfoo" instead of "-N foo") that
6 it does not understand; and it was not possible to fix that
7 for any compat level before v8. But also, such logs can occur
8 for other reasons, like interrupted builds during development,
9 and it should be safe to clean them all. Closes: #623446
10 * Fix Typos in documentation regarding {pre,post}{inst,rm}
13 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2011 16:15:21 -0400
15 debhelper (8.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
18 * dh_auto_clean: Inhibit logging, so that, if dh_auto_clean is used
19 in some rule other than clean, perhaps to clean up an intermediate
20 build before a second build is run, debian/rules clean still runs it.
22 * Started work on Debhelper v9. It is still experimental, and more
23 changes may be added to that mode.
24 * Support multiarch in v9. Thanks, Steve Langasek. Closes: #617761
25 * dh_auto_configure: Support multiarch in v9 by passing multiarch
26 directories to --libdir and --libexecdir.
27 * dh_makeshlibs: Detect packages using multiarch directories and
28 make ${misc:Pre-Depends} expand to multiarch-support.
29 * Depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.16.0) for multiarch support. Note to backporters:
30 If you remove that dependency, debhelper will fall back to not doing
31 multiarch stuff in v9 mode, which is probably what you want.
32 * Removed old example rules files.
33 * dh_installgsettings: New command to handle gsettings schema files.
37 * update french translation.
38 * Fix french misspelling.
40 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 05 Apr 2011 13:09:43 -0400
42 debhelper (8.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
44 * Fix logging at end of an override target that never actually runs
45 the overridden command. Closes: #613418
47 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 Feb 2011 14:22:17 -0400
49 debhelper (8.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
51 * dh_strip, dh_makeshlibs: use triplet-objdump, triplet-objcopy and
52 triplet-strip from cross-binutils when cross-compiling; Closes: #412118.
54 * Improve handling of logging in override targets, so that
55 --remaining-packages can be used again. Now all debhelper commands run
56 in the override target are marked as running as part of the override,
57 and when the whole target is run, the log is updated to indicate that
58 commands run during the override have finished. Closes: #612828
60 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Feb 2011 19:58:34 -0400
62 debhelper (8.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
65 * python_distutils: Pass --force to setup.py build, to ensure that when
66 python-dbg is run it does not win and result in scripts having it in
67 the shebang line. Closes: #589759
68 * Man page fixes about what program -u passes params to. Closes: #593342
69 * Avoid open fd 5 or 6 breaking buildsystem test suite. Closes: #596679
70 * Large update to Spanish man page translations by Omar Campagne.
72 * dh_installdeb: Support debian/package.maintscript files,
73 which can contain dpkg-maintscript-helper commands. This can be used
74 to automate moving or removing conffiles, or anything added to
75 dpkg-maintscript-helper later on. Closes: #574443
76 (Thanks, Colin Watson)
77 * Massive man page typography patch. Closes: #600883
78 (Thanks, David Prévot)
79 * Explicitly build-depend on a new enough perl-base. Closes: #601188
80 * dh: Inhibit logging when an override target runs the overridden command,
81 to avoid unexpected behavior if the command succeeded but the overall
82 target fails. Closes: #601037
83 * Fix deprecated command list on translated debhelper(7) man pages.
85 * dh: Improve filtering in dh_listpackages example. Closes: #604561
86 * dh: Add support for build-arch, build-indep, install-arch and
87 install-indep sequences. Closes: #604563
89 * dh_listpackages: Do not display warnings if options cause no packages
91 * dh_installdocs: Clarify that debian/README.Debian and debian/TODO are
92 only installed into the first package listed in debian/control.
94 * dh_compress: Javascript files are not compressed, as these go with
95 (uncompressed) html files. Closes: #603553
96 * dh_compress: Ignore objects.inv files, generated by Sphinx documentation.
98 * dh_installinit: never call init scripts directly, only through invoke-rc.d
100 (Thanks, Steve Langasek)
103 * update french translation.
104 * Fix french misspelling.
105 * French translation update after massive man page typography
107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Feb 2011 12:00:04 -0400
109 debhelper (8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
112 * dh_fixperms: Ensure files in /etc/sudoers.d/ are mode 440. Closes: #589574
115 * Finalized v8 mode, which is the new recommended default.
117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Aug 2010 11:27:24 -0400
119 debhelper (7.9.3) unstable; urgency=low
121 * perl_makemaker: import compat(). Closes: #587654
123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 2010 14:42:09 -0400
125 debhelper (7.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
127 * In v8 mode, stop passing packlist=0 in perl_makemaker buildsystem,
128 since perl_build is tried first. Avoids the makemaker warning message
129 introduced by the fix to #527990.
131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Jun 2010 17:41:41 -0400
133 debhelper (7.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
135 * Started work on Debhelper v8. It is still experimental, and more
136 changes are planned for that mode.
137 * dh_installman: Support .so links relative to the current section.
138 * dh_installman: Avoid converting .so links to symlinks if the link
139 target is not present in the same binary package, on advice of
140 Colin Watson. (To support eventual so search paths.)
141 * Add deprecation warning for dh_clean -k.
142 * dh_testversion: Removed this deprecated and unused command.
143 * debian/compress files are now deprecated. Seems only one package
144 (genesis) still uses them.
145 * dh_fixperms: Tighten globs used to find library .so files,
146 avoiding incorrectly matching things like "foo.sources". Closes: #583328
147 * dh_installchangelogs: Support packages placing their changelog in a
148 file with a name like HISTORY. Closes: #582749
149 * dh_installchangelogs: Also look for changelog files in doc(s)
150 subdirectories. Closes: #521258
151 * In v8 mode, do not allow directly passing unknown options to debhelper
152 commands. (Unknown options in DH_OPTIONS still only result in warnings.)
153 * In v8 mode, dh_makeshlibs will run dpkg-gensymbols on all shared
154 libraries it generates shlibs files for. This means that -X can be
155 used to exclude libraries from processing by dpkg-gensymbols. It also
156 means that libraries in unusual locations, where dpkg-gensymbols does
157 not itself normally look, will be passed to it, a behavior change which
158 may break some packages. Closes: #557603
159 * In v8 mode, dh expects the sequence to run is always its first parameter.
160 (Ie, use "dh $@ --foo", not "dh --foo $@")
161 This avoids ambiguities when parsing options to be passed on to debhelper
162 commands. (See #570039)
163 * In v8 mode, prefer the perl_build buildsystem over perl_makemaker.
165 * postrm-init: Avoid calling the error handler if update-rc.d fails.
168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Jun 2010 13:44:48 -0400
170 debhelper (7.4.20) unstable; urgency=low
172 * Drop one more call to dpkg-architecture. Closes: #580837
174 * Further reduce the number of calls to dpkg-architecture to zero,
175 in a typical package with no explicit architecture mentions
176 in control file or debhelper config files.
177 * dh_perl: use debian_abi for XS modules. Closes: #581233
179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 2010 20:06:02 -0400
181 debhelper (7.4.19) unstable; urgency=low
183 * Memoize architecture comparisons in samearch, and avoid calling
184 dpkg-architecture at all for simple comparisons that clearly
185 do not involve architecture wildcards. Closes:# 579317
187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 2010 19:45:07 -0400
189 debhelper (7.4.18) unstable; urgency=low
191 * dh_gconf: Depend on new gconf2 that uses triggers, and stop
192 calling triggered programs manually. Closes: #577179
194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 2010 16:23:38 -0400
196 debhelper (7.4.17) unstable; urgency=low
198 * Fix #572077 in one place I missed earlier. (See #576885)
199 * dh: Fixed example of overriding binary target.
200 * Began finalizing list of changes for v8 compat level.
202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 08 Apr 2010 18:23:43 -0400
204 debhelper (7.4.16) unstable; urgency=low
206 * Updated French translation.
207 * makefile buildsystem: Chomp output during test for full compatibility
208 with debhelper 7.4.11. Closes: #570503
209 * dh_install: Now --list-missing and --fail-missing are useful even when
210 not all packages are acted on (due to architecture limits or flags).
212 * Typo. Closes: #571968
213 * If neither -a or -i are specified, debhelper commands used to default
214 to acting on all packages in the control file, which was a guaranteed
215 failure if the control file listed packages that did not build for the
216 target architecture. After recent optimisations, this default behavior
217 can efficiently be changed to the more sane default of acting on only
218 packages that can be built for the current architecture. This change
219 is mostly useful when using minimal rules files with dh. Closes: #572077
220 * dh_md5sums: Sort to ensure stable, more diffable order. Closes: #573702
221 * dh: Allow --list-addons to be used when not in a source package.
223 * dh: Improve documentation.
225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 06 Apr 2010 22:06:50 -0400
227 debhelper (7.4.15) unstable; urgency=low
229 * The fix for #563557 caused some new trouble involving makefile
230 that misbehave when stderr is closed. Reopen it to /dev/null
231 when testing for the existance of a makefile target. Closes: #570443
233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:37:34 -0500
235 debhelper (7.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
237 * dh: Disable option bundling to avoid mis-parsing bundled options such
238 as "-Bpython-support". Closes: #570039
240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Feb 2010 14:47:10 -0500
242 debhelper (7.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
244 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing images in /usr/share/info. Closes: #567586
245 * Fix handling of -O with options specified by commands. Closes: #568081
247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 02 Feb 2010 12:15:41 -0500
249 debhelper (7.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
251 * dh_bugfiles: Doc typo. Closes: #563269
252 * makefile: Support the (asking for trouble) case of MAKE being set to
253 something with a space in it. Closes: #563557
254 * Fix warning about unknown options passed to commands in override targets.
255 * Add -O option, which can be used to pass options to commands, ignoring
256 options that they do not support.
257 * dh: Use -O to pass user-specified options to the commands it runs.
258 This solves the problem with passing "-Bbuild" to dh, where commands
259 that do not support -B would see a bogus -u option. Closes: #541773
260 (It also ensures that the commands dh prints out can really be run.)
261 * qmake: New buildsystem contributed by Kel Modderman. Closes: #566840
262 * Fix typo in call to abs2rel in --builddir sanitize code.
265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jan 2010 20:23:02 -0500
267 debhelper (7.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
269 * dh(1): Minor rewording of documentation of override commands.
271 * dh(1): Add an example of using an override target to avoid
272 dh running several commands. Closes: #560600
273 * dh_installman: Avoid doubled slashes in path. Closes: #561275
274 * dh_installxfonts: Use new update-fonts-alias --include and
275 --exclude options to better handle removal in the case where
276 xfonts-utils is removed before a font package is purged.
277 (#543512; thanks, Theppitak Karoonboonyanan)
278 * dh: Optimise handling of noop overrides, avoiding an unnecessary
279 call to make to handle them. (Modestas Vainius)
281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Dec 2009 11:32:34 -0500
283 debhelper (7.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
285 * Add --parallel option that can be used to enable parallel building
286 without limiting the max number of parallel jobs. (Modestas Vainius)
287 * dh_makeshlibs: Temporarily revert fix for #557603, as it caused
288 dpkg-gensymbols to see libraries not in the regular search path and
289 broke builds. This will be re-enabled in v8. Closes: #560217
291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:17:19 -0500
293 debhelper (7.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
295 * Typo. Closes: #558654
296 * dh_installinit: Fix installation of defaults file when an upstart job is
297 installed. Closes: #558782
299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:21:10 -0500
301 debhelper (7.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
303 * Parallel building support is no longer enabled by default. It can still
304 be enabled by using the --max-parallel option. This was necessary because
305 some buildds build with -j2 by default. (See #532805)
306 * dh: Document --no-act. Closes: #557505
307 * dh_makeshlibs: Make -X also exclude libraries from the symbols file.
308 Closes: #557603 (Peter Samuelson)
310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:57:10 -0500
312 debhelper (7.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
314 * make: Avoid infinite make recursion that occurrs when testing existence
315 of a target in a certian horribly broken makefile, by making the test stop
316 after it sees one line of output from make. (This may be better replaced
317 with dh's makefile parser in the future.) Closes: #557307
319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:35:22 -0500
321 debhelper (7.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
323 * Update --list to reflect buildsystem autoselection changes.
324 * Remove last vestiages of support for /usr/X11R6.
325 * cmake: Fix deep recursion in test. Closes: #557299
327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:08:48 -0500
329 debhelper (7.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
331 * ant: Fix auto-selection breakage. Closes: #557006 (Cyril Brulebois)
333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:53:39 -0500
335 debhelper (7.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
337 * The makefile buildsystem (and derived buildsystems cmake, autoconf, etc)
338 now supports parallel building by default, as specified via
339 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS. Closes: #532805
340 * dh_auto_*: Add --max-parallel option that can be used to control
341 or disable parallel building. --max-parallel=1 will disable parallel
342 building, while --max-parallel=N will limit the maximum number of
343 parallel processes that can be specified via DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
344 * Added some hacks to avoid warnings about unavailable jobservers when
345 debhelper runs make, and the parent debian/rules was run in parallel
346 mode (as dpkg-buildpackage -j currently does).
347 * Thanks, Modestas Vainius for much of the work on parallel build support.
348 * Add deprecation warnings for -u to the documentation, since putting
349 options after -- is much more sane. (However, -u will not go away any
350 time soon.) Closes: #554509
351 * Separate deprecated programs in the list of commands in debhelper(7).
353 * Adjust code to add deprecation warning for compatibility level 4.
354 (Man page already said it was deprecated.) Closes: #555899
355 * dh_installdocs: Warn if a doc-base file cannot be parsed to find a
356 document id. Closes: #555677
357 * Typo. Closes: #555659
358 * cmake: Set CTEST_OUTPUT_ON_FAILURE when running test suite.
359 Closes: #555807 (Modestas Vainius)
360 * autoconf: If configure fails, display config.log. Intended to make
361 it easier to debug configure script failures on autobuilders.
363 * Improve build system autoselection process; this allows cmake to be
364 autoselected for steps after configure, instead of falling back to
365 makefile once cmake generated a makefile. Closes: #555805
368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:44:21 -0500
370 debhelper (7.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
373 * update french translation. Closes: #494300, #477703
374 * add --previous at po4a command into Makefile
375 * add dh, dh_auto_install, dh_auto_clean, dh_auto_configure,
376 dh_auto_install, dh_auto_test, dh_bugfiles, dh_icons, dh_installifupdown,
377 dh_installudev, dh_lintian, dh_prep into po4a.cfg manpages list
378 * fix a spelling mistake in dh_makeshlibs man french
379 translation (#494300 part 2)
382 * dh_perl: Do not look at perl scripts under /usr/share/doc.
384 * Allow dpkg-architecture to print errors to stderr. Closes: #548636
385 * python_distutils: Run default python last, not first, and pass --force
386 to setup.py install to ensure that timestamps do not prevent installation
387 of the scripts built for the default python, with unversioned shebang
388 lines. Closes: #547510 (Thanks, Andrew Straw)
390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:37:38 -0400
392 debhelper (7.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
394 * Man page typo. Closes: #545443
395 * dh: Remove duplicate dh_installcatalogs list. Closes: #545483
396 (It was only run once due to logging.)
397 * dh_installdocs: Add --link-doc option that can be used to link
398 documentation directories. This is easier to use and more flexible
399 than the old method of running dh_link first to make a broken symlink.
400 Closes: #545676 Thanks, Colin Watson
401 * Reorder dh_pysupport call in dh sequence to come before
402 dh_installinit, so the generated postinst script registers
403 python modules before trying to use them. Closes: #546293
404 * dh_installudev: With --name, install debian/<package>.<name>.udev
405 to rules.d/<priority>-<name>, the same as debian/<name>.udev
406 is installed for the first package. Closes: #546337
408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:46:49 -0400
410 debhelper (7.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
413 * dh_installinit: Support upstart job files, and provide compatibility
414 symlinks in /etc/init.d for sysv-rc implementations. Closes: #536035.
417 * Add FILES sections to man pages. Closes: #545041
418 * dh_prep(1): Clarify when it should be called. Closes: #544969
420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 06 Sep 2009 18:44:40 -0400
422 debhelper (7.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
424 * Optimise -s handling to avoid running dpkg-architecture if a package
425 is arch all. This was, suprisingly, the only overhead of using the -s
426 flag with arch all/any packages.
427 * The -a flag now does the same thing as the -s flag, so debhelper users
428 do not need to worry about using the -s flag when building a package
429 that only builds for some architectures, and dh will also work in that
430 situation. Closes: #540794
432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:41:16 -0400
434 debhelper (7.3.16) unstable; urgency=low
436 * dh_desktop: Clarify in man page why it's a no-op.
438 * dh_installdocs: Loosen the Document field parsing, to accept
439 everything doc-base *really* accepts in a doc id (not just what
440 it's documented to accept). Closes: #543499
441 * Allow sequence addons to pass options to debhelper commands,
442 by adding add_command_options and remove_command_options to the interface.
445 * dh_auto_install: Add a --destdir parameter that can be used to override
446 the default. Closes: #538201
449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:10:53 -0400
451 debhelper (7.3.15) unstable; urgency=low
453 * dh_installudev: Install rules files into new location
455 * dh_installudev: Add code to delete old conffiles unless
456 they're modified, and in that case, rename them to override
457 the corresponding file in /lib/udev. (Based on patch by
458 Martin Pitt.) (Note that this file will not be deleted on purge --
459 I can't see a good way to determine when it's appropriate to do
461 * dh_installudev: Set default priority to 60; dropping the "z".
462 If --priority=zNN is passed, treat that as priority NN.
463 * Above Closes: #491117
464 * dh_installudev: Drop code handling move of /etc/udev/foo into
467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:22:08 -0400
469 debhelper (7.3.14) unstable; urgency=low
472 * dh: Add --list option to list available addons. Closes: #541302
475 * Run pod2man with --utf8. Closes: #541270
476 * dh: Display $@ error if addon load fails. Closes: #541845
477 * dh_perl: Remove perl minimum dependency per new policy. Closes: #541811
479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:55:48 -0400
481 debhelper (7.3.13) unstable; urgency=low
484 * python_distutils.pm: Support debhelper backports.
485 To allow backports of debhelper we don't pass
486 --install-layout=deb to 'setup.py install` for those Python
487 versions where the option is ignored by distutils/setuptools.
488 Thanks to Julian Andres Klode for the bug report.
491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 2009 20:10:57 -0400
493 debhelper (7.3.12) unstable; urgency=low
495 * dh: Allow creation of new sequences (such as to handle a patch
496 target for quilt), by adding an add_command function to the
497 sequence addon interface. See #540124.
499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:08:53 -0400
501 debhelper (7.3.11) unstable; urgency=low
503 * perl_build: Fix Build check to honor source directory setting.
505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:52:34 -0400
507 debhelper (7.3.10) unstable; urgency=low
509 * perl_build: Avoid failing if forced to be used in dh_auto_clean
510 when Build does not exist (ie due to being run twice in a row).
512 * dh_builddeb: Fix man page typo. Closes: #539976
513 * dh_installdeb: In udeb mode, support the menutest and isinstallable
514 maintainer scripts. Closes: #540079 Thanks, Colin Watson.
516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:03:01 -0400
518 debhelper (7.3.9) unstable; urgency=low
520 * cmake: Avoid forcing rpath off as this can break some test suites.
521 It gets stripped by cmake at install time. Closes: #538977
523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 01 Aug 2009 15:59:07 -0400
525 debhelper (7.3.8) unstable; urgency=low
527 * Fix t/override_target to use ./run. Closes: #538315
529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 25 Jul 2009 00:37:45 +0200
531 debhelper (7.3.7) unstable; urgency=low
533 * First upload of buildsystems support to unstable.
534 Summary: Adds --buildsystem (modular, OO buildsystem classes),
535 --sourcedirectory, --builddirectory, and support for cmake
538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:07:47 +0200
540 debhelper (7.3.6) experimental; urgency=low
542 * perl_makemaker: Re-add fix for #496157, lost in rewrite.
544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:17:45 +0200
546 debhelper (7.3.5) experimental; urgency=low
549 * python_distutils buildsystem: Build for all supported Python
550 versions that are installed. Ensure that correct shebangs are
551 created by using `python' first during build and install.
553 Also build with python*-dbg if the package build-depends
556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:30:22 +0200
558 debhelper (7.3.4) experimental; urgency=low
560 * Merged debhelper 7.2.24.
562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:50:37 -0400
564 debhelper (7.3.3) experimental; urgency=low
566 * Add ant buildsystem support. Closes: #537021
567 * Merged debhelper 7.2.22.
569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:16:28 -0400
571 debhelper (7.3.2) experimental; urgency=low
573 * Merged debhelper 7.2.21.
575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:23:48 -0400
577 debhelper (7.3.1) experimental; urgency=low
579 * Merged debhelper 7.2.20.
581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:28:55 -0400
583 debhelper (7.3.0) experimental; urgency=low
585 * Modular object oriented dh_auto_* buildsystem support,
586 contributed by Modestas Vainius
587 - dh_auto_* --sourcedirectory can now be used to specify a source
588 directory if sources and/or the whole buildsystem lives elsewhere
589 than the top level directory. Closes: #530597
590 - dh_auto_* --builddirectory can now be used to specify a build
591 directory to use for out of source building, for build systems
592 that support it. Closes: #480577
593 - dh_auto_* --buildsystem can now be used to override the autodetected
594 build system, or force use of a third-party class.
595 - dh_auto_* --list can be used to list available and selected build
597 - Adds support for cmake.
598 - For the perl_build build system, Build is used consistently
599 instead of falling back to using the generated Makefile.
601 - Historical dh_auto_* behavior should be preserved despite these
603 * Move two more command-specific options to only be accepted by the commands
604 that use them. The options are:
605 --sourcedir, --destdir
606 If any third-party debhelper commands use either of the above options,
607 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
608 * Make dh not complain about unknown, command-specific options passed to it,
609 and further suppress warnings about such options it passes on to debhelper
610 commands. This was attempted incompletely before in version 7.2.17.
612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:31:20 -0400
614 debhelper (7.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
616 * dh_install: Add test suite covering the last 5 bugs.
618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:42:18 -0400
620 debhelper (7.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
622 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where debian/tmp is
623 explicitly specified in filename paths despite being searched by
624 default. Closes: #537140
626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:24:19 -0400
628 debhelper (7.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
630 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where --sourcedir=debian/tmp/foo
631 is used. Perl was not being greedy enough and the 'foo' was not stripped
632 from the destination directory in this unusual case. Closes: #537017
634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:08:25 -0400
636 debhelper (7.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
638 * Add a versioned dep on perl-base, to get a version that supports
639 GetOptionsFromArray. Closes: #536310
641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:08:45 -0400
643 debhelper (7.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
645 * dh_install: Fix installation of entire top-level directory
646 from debian/tmp. Closes: #535367
648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:17:42 -0400
650 debhelper (7.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
652 * dh_install: Handle correctly the case where a glob expands to
653 a dangling symlink, installing the dangling link as requested.
655 * dh_install: Fix fallback use of debian/tmp in v7 mode; a bug caused
656 it to put files inside a debian/tmp directory in the package build
657 directory, now that prefix is stripped. (See #534565)
659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:56:52 -0400
661 debhelper (7.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
663 * dh_shlibdeps: Ensure DEBIAN directory exists, as dpkg-shlibdeps
664 prints a confusing warning if it does not. Closes: #534226
665 * dh_auto_install: Pass --install-layout=deb to setup.py
666 to support python 2.6. Closes: #534620
668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:35:40 -0400
670 debhelper (7.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
672 * Allow command-specific options to be passed to commands
673 via dh without causing other commands to emit a getopt
674 warning or deprecation message.
675 * dh_installinfo: No longer inserts install-info calls into
676 maintainer scripts, as that is now triggerized. Adds a dependency
677 via misc:Depends to handle partial upgrades. Note that while
678 dh_installinfo already required that info files had a INFO-DIR-SECTION,
679 the new system also requires they have START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY and
680 END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY for proper registration. I assume there will be
681 some mass bug filing for any packages that do not have that.
682 Closes: #534639, #357434
684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:02:51 -0400
686 debhelper (7.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
688 * dh_gconf: Add missed half of postrm fragment removal. Closes: #531035
690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:50:33 -0400
692 debhelper (7.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
694 * dh_strip, dh_shlibdeps: Add support for OCaml shared libraries.
695 (Stephane Glondu) Closes: #527272, #532701
696 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing .svg and .sgvz files, since these
697 might be used as images on a html page, and also to avoid needing
698 to special case the .svgz extension when compressing svg.
700 * dh_scrollkeeper: Now a deprecated no-op. Closes: #530806
701 * dh_gconf: Remove postrm fragment that handled schema migration
702 from /etc to /usr. Closes: #531035
704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:14:07 -0400
706 debhelper (7.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
708 * dh: Avoid writing log after override_dh_clean is run. Closes: #529228
710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 May 2009 12:49:32 -0400
712 debhelper (7.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
714 * dh_auto_configure: Pass --skipdeps safely via PERL_AUTOINSTALL.
717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 15:21:21 -0400
719 debhelper (7.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
721 * dh_auto_configure: Revert --skipdeps change
722 Closes: #528647, reopens: #528235
724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 14:15:26 -0400
726 debhelper (7.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
728 * dh: Support --with addon,addon,...
730 * dh_auto_configure: Add --skipdeps when running Makefile.PL,
731 to prevent Module::Install from trying to download dependencies.
733 * Support debian/foo.os files to suppliment previous debian/foo.arch
734 file support. Closes: #494914
735 (Thanks, Aurelien Jarno)
737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 May 2009 14:52:18 -0400
739 debhelper (7.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
741 * Close COMPAT_IN filehandle. Closes: #527464
742 * dh_auto_configure: Clarify man page re adding configure
743 parameters. Closes: #527256
744 * dh_auto_configure: Pass packlist=0 when running Makefile.PL,
745 in case it is a Build.PL passthru, to avoid it creating
746 the .packlist file. Closes: #527990
748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 May 2009 13:07:08 -0400
750 debhelper (7.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
752 * dh_fixperms: Ensure lintian overrides are mode 644.
754 * dh_fixperms: Fix permissions of OCaml .cmxs files. Closes: #526221
755 * dh: Add --without to allow disabling sequence addons (particularly
756 useful to disable the default python-support addon).
758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 04 May 2009 14:46:53 -0400
760 debhelper (7.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
762 * dh_desktop: Now a deprecated no-op, since desktop-file-utils
763 uses triggers. Closes: #523474
764 (also Closes: #521960, #407701 as no longer applicable)
765 * Move dh sequence documentation to PROGRAMMING.
767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:15:32 -0400
769 debhelper (7.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
771 * Fix calling the same helper for separate packages in the override of dh
772 binary-indep/binary-arch. Closes: #520567
773 * Add --remaining-packages option (Modestas Vainius)
775 * Pass -L UTF-8 to po4a to work around bug #520942
776 * dh_icons: ignore gnome and hicolor themes (will be handled
777 by triggers). Closes: #521181
779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:15:29 -0400
781 debhelper (7.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
783 * Examples files updated to add dh_bugfiles, remove obsolete
785 * dh_auto_test: Support DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck. Closes: #519374
787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:54:48 -0400
789 debhelper (7.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
791 * Set MODULEBUILDRC=/dev/null when running perl Build scripts
792 to avoid ~/.modulebuildrc influencing the build. Closes: #517423
793 * dh_installmenus: Revert removal of update-menus calls. Closes: #518919
794 Menu refuses to add unconfigured packages to the menu, and thus
795 omits packages when triggered, unfortunatly. I hope its behavior will
798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:20:41 -0400
800 debhelper (7.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
802 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix --add-udeb, for real. Closes: #518706
804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:14:30 -0400
806 debhelper (7.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
808 * dh_installmenus: Now that a triggers capable menu and dpkg are in
809 stable, menu does not need to be explicitly run in maintainer
810 scripts, except for packages with menu-methods files. (See #473467)
811 * dh_installdocs: No longer add maintainer script code to call
812 doc-base, as it supports triggers in stable.
813 * dh_bugfiles: New program, contributed by Modestas Vainius.
815 * dh: Override LC_ALL, not LANG. re-Closes: #517617
816 * dh_installchangelogs: Support -X to exclude automatic installation
817 of specific upstream changelogs. re-Closes: #490937
818 * Compat level 4 is now deprecated.
819 * dh_makeshlibs: Re-add --add-udeb support. Closes: #518655
820 * dh_shlibdeps: Remove --add-udeb switch (was accidentially added here).
822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:52:20 -0500
824 debhelper (7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
826 * dh_installmodules: Give files in /etc/modprobe.d a .conf
827 syntax, as required by new module-init-tools.
828 * dh_installmodules: Add preinst and postinst code to handle
829 cleanly renaming the modprobe.d files on upgrade.
830 * Two updates to conffile moving code from wiki:
831 - Support case where the conffile name is a substring of another
833 - Support case where dpkg-query says the file is obsolete.
835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:37:33 -0500
837 debhelper (7.2.1) experimental; urgency=low
839 * Merged debhelper 7.0.52.
841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:01:22 -0500
843 debhelper (7.2.0) experimental; urgency=low
845 * Merged debhelper 7.0.50.
846 * dh: Fix typo. Closes: #509754
847 * debhelper.pod: Fix typo. Closes: #510180
848 * dh_gconf: Support mandatory settings. Closes: #513923
849 * Improve error messages when child commands fail.
850 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.19, the first to support Package-Type
851 fields in dpkg-gencontrol.
852 * dh_gencontrol: No longer need to generate the udeb filename
853 when calling dpkg-gencontrol.
854 * dh_gencontrol: Do not need to tell dpkg-gencontol not to
855 include the Homepage field in udebs (fixed in dpkg-dev 1.14.17).
857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:33:44 -0500
859 debhelper (7.1.1) experimental; urgency=low
861 * dh_install(1): Order options alphabetically. Closes:# 503896
862 * Fix some docs that refered to --srcdir rather than --sourcedir.
864 * Add Vcs-Browser field. Closes: #507804
865 * Ignore unknown options in DH_OPTIONS. Debhelper will always ignore
866 such options, even when unknown command-line options are converted back
867 to an error. This allows (ab)using DH_OPTIONS to pass command-specific
869 (Note that getopt will warn about such unknown options. Eliminating this
870 warning without reimplementing much of Getopt::Long wasn't practical.)
872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:19:27 -0500
874 debhelper (7.1.0) experimental; urgency=low
876 * dh_installchangelogs: Fall back to looking for changelog files ending
877 with ".txt". Closes: #498460
878 * dh_gencontrol: Ensure misc:Depends is set in substvars to avoid dpkg
879 complaining about it when it's empty. Closes: #498666
880 * dh: Fix typo in example. Closes: #500836
881 * Allow individual debhelper programs to define their own special options
882 by passing a hash to init(), which is later passed on the Getopt::Long.
884 * Move many command-specific options to only be accepted by the command
885 that uses them. Affected options are:
886 -x, -r, -R, -l, -L, -m,
887 --include-conffiles, --no-restart-on-upgrade, --no-start,
888 --restart-after-upgrade, --init-script, --filename, --flavor, --autodest,
889 --libpackage, --add-udeb, --dpkg-shlibdeps-params,
890 --dpkg-gencontrol-params, --update-rcd-params, --major, --remove-d,
891 --dirs-only, --keep-debug, --version-info, --list-missing, --fail-missing,
892 --language, --until, --after, --before, --remaining, --with
893 * If any third-party debhelper commands use any of the above options,
894 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
895 * To avoid breaking rules files that pass options to commands that do not
896 use them, debhelper will now only warn if it encounters an unknown
897 option. This will be converted back to an error later.
899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:58:00 -0400
901 debhelper (7.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
903 * dh: Fix make parsing to not be broken by locale settings.
906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:52:34 -0500
908 debhelper (7.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
910 * dh: Man page typos. Closes: #517549, #517550
912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:23:30 -0500
914 debhelper (7.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
916 * This release is designed to be easily backportable to stable,
917 to support the new style of rules file that I expect many packages will
919 * dh: debian/rules override targets can change what is run
920 for a specific debhelper command in a sequence.
921 (Thanks Modestas Vainius for the improved makefile parser.)
922 * dh: Redid all the examples to use override targets, since these
923 eliminate all annoying boilerplate and are much easier to understand
925 * Remove rules.simple example, there's little need to use explicit targets
927 * dh: Support debian/rules calling make with -B,
928 which is useful to avoid issues with phony implicit
929 rules (see bug #509756).
931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:25:52 -0500
933 debhelper (7.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
936 * dh_auto_install: Fix man page, was referring to dh_auto_clean.
939 * dh_gencontrol: Drop the Homepage field from udebs. Closes: #492719
940 * Typo. Closes: #493062
941 * dh_auto_install: Improve check for MakeMaker, to avoid passing PREFIX
942 if the Makefile was generated by Module::Build::Compat. Closes: #496157
944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:30:12 -0400
946 debhelper (7.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
948 * dh: Avoid passing --with on to subcommands. Closes: #490886
949 * dh_installchangelogs: When searching for changelog in v7 mode, skip
950 empty files. Closes: #490937
952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:34:13 -0400
954 debhelper (7.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
956 * dh_clean: Do not delete *-stamp files in -k mode in v7. Closes: #489918
958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:16:11 -0400
960 debhelper (7.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
962 * Load python-support sequence file first, to allow ones loaded later to
965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:23:32 -0400
967 debhelper (7.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
969 * dh_auto_install: Rather than looking at the number of binary packages
970 being acted on, look at the total number of binary packages in the
971 source package when deciding whether to install to debian/package or
972 debian/tmp. This avoids inconsistencies when building mixed arch all+any
973 packages using the binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
976 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:27:02 -0400
978 debhelper (7.0.12) unstable; urgency=medium
980 * Correct docs about dh_install and debian/tmp in v7 mode. It first looks in
981 the current directory, or whatever is configured with --srcdir. Then it
982 always falls back to looking in debian/tmp.
983 * Medium urgency to get this doc fix into testing.
985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:36:50 -0400
987 debhelper (7.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
989 * dh: Man page fix. Closes: #485116
990 * Add stamp files to example rules targets. Closes: #486327
991 * Add a build dependency on file. The rules file now runs dh_strip and
992 dh_shlibdeps, which both use it. (It could be changed not to, but
993 it's good to have it run all the commands as a test.) Closes: #486439
994 * Typo fix. Closes: #486464
996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:39:21 -0400
998 debhelper (7.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1000 * dh_compress: Do not compress index.sgml files, as generated by gtk-doc.
1003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:48:39 -0400
1005 debhelper (7.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1007 * rules.tiny: Typo fix. Closes: #479647
1008 * dh_installinit: Add --restart-after-upgrade, which avoids stopping a
1009 daemon in the prerm, and instead restarts it in the postinst, keeping
1010 its downtime minimal. Since some daemons could break if files are upgraded
1011 while they're running, it's not the default. It might become the default
1012 in a future (v8) compatibility level. Closes: #471060
1013 * dh: fix POD error. Closes: #480191
1014 * dh: Typo fixes. Closes: #480200
1015 * dh: Add remove_command to the sequence interface.
1016 * dh_auto_clean: setup.py clean can create pyc files. Remove. Closes: #481899
1018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 May 2008 12:47:47 -0400
1020 debhelper (7.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1022 * dh: Add an interface that third-party packages providing debhelper commands
1023 can use to insert them into a command sequence.
1024 (See dh(1), "SEQUENCE ADDONS".)
1025 * dh: --with=foo can be used to include such third-party commands.
1026 So, for example, --with=cli could add the dh_cli* commands from
1028 * Moved python-support special case out of dh and into a python-support
1029 sequence addon. --with=python-support is enabled by default to avoid
1030 breaking backwards compatibility.
1032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 16:10:54 -0400
1034 debhelper (7.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1036 * dh_installxfonts: Fix precidence problem that exposes a new warning
1037 message in perl 5.10.
1039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 13:43:41 -0400
1041 debhelper (7.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1043 * dh_auto_test: Correct Module::Build tests.
1045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 03 May 2008 12:58:50 -0400
1047 debhelper (7.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1049 * Convert copyright file to new format.
1050 * dh_test*: inhibit logging. Closes: #478958
1052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 May 2008 19:52:00 -0400
1054 debhelper (7.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1056 * Fix underescaped $ in Makefile. Closes: #478475
1057 * dh_auto_test: Run tests for Module::Build packages. (Florian Ragwitz)
1059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:17:01 -0400
1061 debhelper (7.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1063 * dh: Fix man page typos. Closes: #477933
1064 * Add missing $! to error message when the log can't be opened.
1065 * One problem with the log files is that if dh_clean is not the last command
1066 run, they will be left behind. This is a particular problem on build
1067 daemons that use real root. Especially if cdbs is used, since it runs
1068 dh_listpackages after clean, thereby leaving behind log files that
1069 only root can touch. Avoid this particular special case by inhibiting
1070 logging by dh_listpackages.
1072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:40:03 -0400
1074 debhelper (7.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1076 * dh: Optimise the case where the binary-arch or binary-indep sequence is
1077 run and there are no packages of that type.
1078 * dh_auto_configure: Set PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT when configuring MakeMaker
1079 packages to avoid interactive prompts.
1080 * dh_auto_*: Also support packages using Module::Build.
1081 * dh_auto_*: Fix some calls to setup.py. Now tested and working with
1083 * dh_install: Find all possible cases of "changelog" and "changes", rather
1084 than just looking for some predefined common cases.
1086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:55:49 -0400
1088 debhelper (7.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1090 * I lied, one more v7 change slipped in..
1091 * dh_installchangelogs: In v7 mode, if no upstream changelog is specified,
1092 and the package is not native, guess at a few common changelog filenames.
1094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:16:19 -0400
1096 debhelper (7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1098 * dh: New program that runs a series of debhelper commands in a sequence.
1099 This can be used to construct very short rules files (as short as 3
1100 lines), while still exposing the full power of debhelper when it's
1102 * dh_auto_configure: New program, automates running ./configure,
1103 Makefile.PL, and python distutils. Calls them with exactly the same
1104 options as cdbs does by default, and allows adding/overriding options.
1105 * dh_auto_build: New program, automates building the package by either
1106 running make or using setup.py. (Support for cmake and other build systems
1107 planned but not yet implemented.)
1108 * dh_auto_test: New program, automates running make test or make check
1109 if the Makefile has such a target.
1110 * dh_auto_clean: New program, automates running make clean (or distclean,
1111 or realclean), or using setup.py to clean up.
1112 * dh_auto_install: New program, automates running make install, or using
1113 setup.py to install. Supports the PREFIX=/usr special case needed by
1114 MakeMaker Makefiles. (Support for cmake and other build systems planned
1115 but not yet implemented.)
1116 * New v7 mode, which only has three changes from v6, and is the new
1117 recommended default, especially when using dh.
1118 * dh_install: In v7 mode, if --sourcedir is not specified, first look for
1119 files in debian/tmp, and then will look in the current directory. This
1120 allows dh_install to interoperate with dh_auto_install without needing any
1122 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, read debian/clean and delete all files listed
1124 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, automatically delete *-stamp files.
1125 * Add a Makefile and simplify this package's own rules file using
1127 * dh_clean: Don't delete core dumps. (Too DWIM, and "core" is not
1128 necessarily a core dump.) Closes: #477391
1129 * dh_prep: New program, does the same as dh_clean -k (which will be
1132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:14:57 -0400
1134 debhelper (6.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1136 * dh_icons: Support .xpm format icons. Stop looking for .jpg icons, and
1137 also, for completeness, support .icon files. This matches the set of
1138 extensions supported by gtk-update-icon-cache. Closes: #448094
1140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:43:31 -0400
1142 debhelper (6.0.11) unstable; urgency=medium
1144 * dh_installman: man --recode transparently uncompresses compressed
1145 pages. So when saving the output back, save it to a non-compressed
1146 filename (and delete the original, compressed file). Closes: #470913
1148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:31:12 -0400
1150 debhelper (6.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1152 * dh_perl: Remove empty directories created by MakeMaker.
1154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:11:57 -0400
1156 debhelper (6.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1158 * dh_installman: Don't recode symlinks. Closes: #471196
1160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:53:39 -0400
1162 debhelper (6.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1164 * dh_installman: Convert all man pages in the build directory to utf-8, not
1165 just those installed by the program.
1167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:25 -0400
1169 debhelper (6.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1171 * dh_lintian: Finally added this since linda is gone and there's only
1172 lintian to worry about supporting. Closes: #109642, #166320, #206765
1173 (Thanks to Steve M. Robbins for the initial implementation.)
1175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:46 -0500
1177 debhelper (6.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1179 * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.
1180 The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
1181 time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100
1182 * The order of dependencies generated by debhelper has been completly random
1183 (hash key order), so sort it. Closes: #468959
1185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:35:21 -0500
1187 debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1189 * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation.
1190 Closes: #462937 (Colin Watson)
1191 * Depend on a new enough version of man-db.
1193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:10 -0500
1195 debhelper (6.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1197 * dh_strip: Improve the idempotency fix put in for #380314.
1198 * dh_strip: The -k flag didn't work (--keep did). Fix.
1199 * dh_shlibdeps: Add emul to exclude list.
1201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:27 -0500
1203 debhelper (6.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1205 * dh_link: -X can be used to avoid it modifying symlinks to be compliant
1206 with policy. Closes: #461392
1207 * dh_shlibdeps: Rather than skipping everything in /usr/lib/debug,
1208 which can include debug libraries that dpkg-shlibdeps should look at,
1209 only skip the subdirectories of it that contain separate debugging
1210 symbols. (Hardcoding the names of those directories is not the best
1211 implementation, but it will do for now.) Closes: #461339
1213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:59 -0500
1215 debhelper (6.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1217 * Revert slightly broken refactoring of some exclude code.
1218 Closes: #460340, #460351
1220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:15 -0500
1222 debhelper (6.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1224 * dh_installdocs/examples: Don't unnecessarily use the exclude code path.
1225 * dh_install{,docs,examples}: Avoid infinite recursion when told to
1226 install a directory ending with "/." (slashdot effect?) when exclusion is
1227 enabled. Emulate the behavior of cp in this case. Closes: #253234
1228 * dh_install: Fix #459426 here too.
1230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:56 -0500
1232 debhelper (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1234 * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
1235 * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now
1236 much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226
1237 * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd
1238 to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps
1239 has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the
1240 package build directory won't work.
1241 * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
1242 dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
1243 affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
1244 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.
1245 * dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples: Support files with spaces in exclude
1246 mode. Closes: #459426
1247 * debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility
1250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:36 -0500
1252 debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1254 * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
1255 the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541
1257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500
1259 debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1261 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
1263 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
1264 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
1265 * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
1266 properly support includes. Closes: #452717
1267 * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
1268 isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
1270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
1272 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1274 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
1275 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
1276 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
1277 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
1278 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
1280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
1282 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1284 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
1285 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
1286 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
1287 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
1288 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
1289 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
1291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
1293 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1295 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
1296 debian/package.triggers files.
1298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
1300 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1302 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
1303 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
1305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
1307 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1309 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
1310 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
1311 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
1312 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
1313 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
1316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
1318 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1320 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
1321 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
1323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
1325 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1327 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
1328 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
1329 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
1331 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
1334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
1336 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1338 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
1340 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
1341 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
1342 * Typo. Closes: #441272
1344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
1346 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1348 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
1351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
1353 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1355 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
1358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
1360 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1362 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
1363 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
1365 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
1366 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
1367 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
1369 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
1370 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
1371 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
1373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
1375 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1377 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
1378 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
1379 * Update urls to web page.
1380 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
1381 file. (Thanks Wakko)
1382 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
1383 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
1385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
1387 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1389 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
1390 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
1391 - typo in alternatives call
1392 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
1394 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
1395 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
1397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
1399 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1401 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
1402 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
1405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
1407 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1409 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
1411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
1413 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1415 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
1417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
1419 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1421 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
1422 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
1424 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
1425 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
1426 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
1427 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
1428 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
1429 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
1430 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
1431 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
1432 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
1433 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
1434 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
1436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
1438 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1440 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
1441 package install. Closes: #415717
1442 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
1443 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
1444 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
1445 script and then remove the python files.
1446 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
1447 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
1448 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
1449 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
1450 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
1451 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
1452 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
1453 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
1454 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
1455 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
1456 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
1457 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
1458 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
1460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
1462 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1465 * Correct typo in french translation
1468 * Typo. Closes: #400571
1469 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
1471 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
1473 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
1474 Closes: #406921, #381940
1475 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
1477 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
1478 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
1479 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
1480 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
1481 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
1482 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
1483 specified). Closes: #381851
1484 * Misc minor changes.
1486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
1488 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1491 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
1495 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
1496 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
1498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
1500 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1503 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
1506 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
1507 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
1510 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
1511 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
1513 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
1514 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
1515 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
1516 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
1518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
1520 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
1523 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
1526 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
1528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
1530 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
1532 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
1534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
1536 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
1539 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
1542 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
1543 a difficult situation.
1544 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
1545 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
1546 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
1547 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
1548 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
1549 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
1550 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
1551 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
1552 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
1553 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
1555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
1557 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
1559 * Non-maintainer upload.
1560 * Update of dh_python
1561 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
1562 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
1564 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
1565 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
1566 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
1567 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
1568 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
1570 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
1572 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
1574 * Non-maintainer upload.
1575 * Update of dh_python
1576 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
1577 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
1578 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
1579 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
1580 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
1581 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
1582 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
1583 specific python version. Closes: #373853
1584 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
1585 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
1587 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
1588 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
1589 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
1590 the not too-distant future).
1591 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
1592 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
1593 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
1594 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
1595 thus made the build fail.
1597 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
1599 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
1601 * Non-maintainer upload.
1602 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
1604 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
1606 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1608 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
1609 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
1610 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
1611 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
1612 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
1613 package. Closes: #301424
1614 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
1615 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
1616 fonts). Closes: #372686
1618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
1620 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1623 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1626 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
1627 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
1628 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
1629 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
1630 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
1631 above, but already depends on that.
1633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
1635 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1637 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
1638 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
1639 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
1640 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
1641 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
1642 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
1644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
1646 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1648 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
1650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
1652 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1655 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1658 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
1659 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
1661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
1663 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1665 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
1666 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
1668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
1670 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
1673 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
1674 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
1675 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
1676 new version (0.24.1).
1677 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
1678 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
1681 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
1682 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
1683 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
1684 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
1685 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
1686 new directory on their own.
1687 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
1688 * Fix broken directory removal code.
1690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
1692 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1694 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
1695 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
1696 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
1697 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
1698 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
1700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
1702 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1704 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
1705 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
1706 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
1707 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
1708 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
1709 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
1711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
1713 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1715 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
1717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
1719 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1722 * Typo. Closes: #358904
1723 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
1724 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
1728 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1729 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
1731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
1733 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
1735 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
1736 || exit 0 instead of the intended
1738 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
1739 ignored. Closes: #337664
1741 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
1744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
1746 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1748 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
1750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
1752 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1755 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
1757 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
1758 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1759 the dh_installdebconf manpage
1760 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
1761 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
1762 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
1763 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
1765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
1767 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1769 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
1770 version. Closes: #350607
1771 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
1772 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
1773 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
1774 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
1776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
1778 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1780 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
1781 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
1782 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
1783 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
1785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
1787 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1789 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
1792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
1794 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1796 * Minor bug fix from last release.
1798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
1800 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1802 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
1803 language guessing. Closes: #193221
1805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
1807 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1809 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
1810 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
1811 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
1812 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
1813 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
1814 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
1815 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
1817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
1819 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1821 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
1822 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
1823 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
1826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
1828 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1830 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
1831 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
1833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
1835 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1837 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
1838 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
1840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
1842 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1844 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
1845 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
1846 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
1847 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
1848 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
1849 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
1850 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
1852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
1854 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1857 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
1858 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
1859 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
1860 link. Closes: #346405
1861 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
1863 [ Josselin Mouette ]
1864 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
1865 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
1866 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
1867 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
1868 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
1869 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
1871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
1873 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1875 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
1878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
1880 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1882 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
1884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
1886 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1888 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
1889 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
1891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
1893 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1895 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
1896 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
1899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
1901 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1903 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
1905 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
1906 installed. Closes: #342033
1908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
1910 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1912 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
1913 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
1914 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
1915 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
1918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
1920 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1922 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
1924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
1926 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1928 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
1930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
1932 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1934 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
1936 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
1937 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
1938 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
1940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
1942 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1944 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
1945 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
1948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
1950 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1952 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
1955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
1957 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1959 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
1961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
1963 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1965 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatibility
1966 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
1967 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
1968 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
1969 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
1970 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
1971 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
1972 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
1974 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
1976 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
1978 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
1980 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
1981 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
1982 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
1984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
1986 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
1988 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
1989 in standard man dirs.
1990 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
1992 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
1994 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
1996 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
1998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
2000 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
2002 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
2003 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
2006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
2008 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
2010 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
2013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
2015 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
2017 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
2020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
2022 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
2024 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
2025 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
2026 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
2028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
2030 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
2032 * NMU with maintainer approval.
2033 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
2034 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
2035 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
2037 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
2039 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
2041 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
2043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
2045 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
2047 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
2049 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
2051 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
2053 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
2054 mode. Closes: #324161
2056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
2058 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
2060 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
2061 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
2062 behavior change. Closes: #249815
2063 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
2064 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
2067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
2069 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
2071 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
2072 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
2073 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
2074 is necesary for sanity.
2075 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
2076 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
2079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
2081 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
2083 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
2084 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
2086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
2088 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
2090 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
2091 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
2093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
2095 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
2097 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
2099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
2101 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
2103 * Begin work on compatibility level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
2104 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
2105 released, so use at your own risk.
2106 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
2107 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
2109 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
2110 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
2111 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
2112 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
2113 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
2114 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
2115 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
2116 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
2117 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
2118 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
2119 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
2120 including twice per config file line now..
2121 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
2122 and simplfy the rules file.
2123 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
2124 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
2125 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
2127 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
2128 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
2130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
2132 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
2134 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
2135 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
2137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
2139 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
2141 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
2142 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
2144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
2146 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
2148 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
2149 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
2151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
2153 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
2155 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
2156 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
2157 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
2158 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
2159 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
2160 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
2161 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
2163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
2165 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
2167 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
2168 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
2169 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
2170 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
2173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
2175 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
2177 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
2178 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
2179 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
2182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
2184 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
2186 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
2187 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
2188 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
2189 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
2192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
2194 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
2196 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
2197 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
2198 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
2199 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
2201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
2203 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
2205 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
2207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
2209 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
2211 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
2214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
2216 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
2218 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
2219 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
2220 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
2221 unknown. Closes: #282924
2223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
2225 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
2227 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
2230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
2232 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
2234 * Spanish man page updates.
2235 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
2238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
2240 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
2242 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
2244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
2246 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
2248 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
2249 * dh_desktop: reindent
2250 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
2251 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
2253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
2255 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2257 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
2259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
2261 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
2263 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
2265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
2267 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
2269 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
2271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
2273 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
2275 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
2276 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
2277 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
2279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
2281 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
2283 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
2285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
2287 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
2289 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
2291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
2293 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
2295 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
2298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
2300 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
2302 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
2303 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
2305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
2307 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
2309 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
2310 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
2311 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
2312 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
2313 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
2314 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
2315 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
2317 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
2318 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
2319 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
2320 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
2321 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
2322 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
2323 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
2324 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
2325 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
2326 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
2327 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
2328 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
2329 in the others, and added a few new tests.
2330 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
2331 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
2332 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
2334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
2336 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2338 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
2341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
2343 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2345 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
2346 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
2348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
2350 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2352 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
2353 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
2355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
2357 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2359 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
2360 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
2362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
2364 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2366 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
2367 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
2369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
2371 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2373 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
2375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
2377 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2379 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
2381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
2383 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2385 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
2387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
2389 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2391 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
2392 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
2393 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
2394 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
2396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
2398 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2400 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
2401 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
2403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
2405 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2407 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
2408 but occasionally right and necessary.
2410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
2412 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2414 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
2415 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
2416 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
2417 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
2418 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
2419 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
2421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
2423 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2425 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
2426 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
2428 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
2429 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
2430 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
2431 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
2432 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
2433 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
2434 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
2435 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
2436 postinst scripts for udebs.
2437 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
2439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
2441 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
2443 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
2444 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
2446 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
2447 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
2449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
2451 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
2453 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
2455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
2457 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
2459 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
2462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
2464 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
2466 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
2469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
2471 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
2473 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
2474 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
2476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
2478 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
2480 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
2481 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
2483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
2485 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
2487 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
2488 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
2491 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
2492 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
2494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
2496 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
2498 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
2500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
2502 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
2504 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
2505 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
2507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
2509 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
2511 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
2512 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
2513 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
2514 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
2516 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
2518 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
2519 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
2520 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
2522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
2524 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
2526 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
2527 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
2530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
2532 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
2534 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
2535 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
2536 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
2537 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
2540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
2542 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
2544 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
2546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
2548 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
2550 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
2552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
2554 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
2556 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
2557 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
2558 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
2559 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
2560 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
2561 associated -dbg packages.
2563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
2565 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
2567 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
2568 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
2570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
2572 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
2574 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
2575 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
2577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
2579 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
2581 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
2582 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
2584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
2586 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
2588 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
2589 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
2592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
2594 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
2596 * Typo. Closes: #207999
2597 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
2599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
2601 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
2603 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
2604 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
2607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
2609 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
2611 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
2612 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
2614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
2616 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
2618 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
2620 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
2621 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
2622 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
2623 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
2624 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
2625 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
2626 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
2627 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
2628 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
2629 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
2631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
2633 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
2635 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
2636 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
2639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
2641 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
2643 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
2644 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
2645 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
2647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
2649 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
2651 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
2652 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
2653 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
2656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
2658 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
2660 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
2661 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
2663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
2665 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
2667 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
2668 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
2670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
2672 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
2674 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
2675 out section number. Closes: #204731
2677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
2679 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
2681 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
2684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
2686 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
2688 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
2690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
2692 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
2694 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
2696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
2698 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
2700 * Typo, Closes: #203907
2701 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
2702 removal. Closes: #204286
2704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
2706 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
2708 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
2709 renaming. Closes: #203548
2711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
2713 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
2715 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
2716 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
2717 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
2719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
2721 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
2723 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
2725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
2727 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
2729 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
2731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
2733 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
2735 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
2737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
2739 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
2741 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
2742 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
2743 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
2744 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
2746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
2748 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
2750 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
2751 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
2752 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
2754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
2756 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
2758 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
2760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
2762 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
2764 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
2767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
2769 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
2771 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
2772 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
2775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
2777 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
2779 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
2780 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
2782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
2784 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
2786 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
2787 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
2789 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
2790 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
2792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
2794 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
2796 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
2797 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
2800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
2802 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
2804 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
2805 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
2807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
2809 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
2811 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
2813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
2815 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
2817 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
2819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
2821 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
2823 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
2824 it break hard links (see #188663).
2826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
2828 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
2830 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
2831 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
2833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
2835 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
2837 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
2839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
2841 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
2843 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
2845 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
2846 debconf-mergetemplates
2848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
2850 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
2852 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
2853 pod2man. Closes: #184013
2855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
2857 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
2859 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
2860 * Typo, Closes: #183267
2862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
2864 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
2866 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
2867 * Update debhelper(1).
2869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
2871 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
2873 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
2874 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
2875 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
2876 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
2877 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
2878 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
2880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
2882 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
2884 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
2885 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
2886 the shell. Closes: #178524
2887 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
2889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
2891 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
2893 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
2894 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
2896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
2898 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
2900 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
2901 undocumented.7 links anymore.
2903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
2905 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
2907 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
2908 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
2909 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
2910 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
2911 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
2914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
2916 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
2918 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
2919 files from installation.
2921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
2923 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
2925 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
2926 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
2927 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
2929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
2931 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
2933 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
2934 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
2936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
2938 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
2940 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
2941 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
2943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
2945 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2947 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
2949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
2951 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2953 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
2955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
2957 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2959 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
2961 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
2962 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
2964 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
2966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
2968 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2970 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
2971 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
2972 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
2973 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
2974 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
2976 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
2978 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2980 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
2981 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
2983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
2985 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2987 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
2988 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
2989 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
2991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
2993 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2995 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
2997 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
3000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
3002 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3004 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
3006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
3008 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3010 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
3012 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
3013 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
3014 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
3017 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
3019 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
3021 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
3022 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
3023 practice. Closes: #163303
3025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
3027 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3029 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
3031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
3033 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3035 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
3038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
3040 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3042 * The "reverse hangover" release.
3043 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
3045 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
3046 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
3047 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
3048 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
3049 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
3051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
3053 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3055 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
3056 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
3059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
3061 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3063 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
3065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
3067 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3069 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
3072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
3074 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3076 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
3077 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
3080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
3082 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3084 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
3086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
3088 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3090 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
3092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
3094 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3096 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
3098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
3100 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3102 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
3105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
3107 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3109 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
3110 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
3111 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
3112 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
3113 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
3116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
3118 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3120 * Typo, Closes: #155323
3122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
3124 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3126 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
3129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
3131 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3133 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
3134 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
3135 * Removed dh_installxaw.
3137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
3139 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3141 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
3142 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
3143 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
3144 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
3145 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
3146 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
3148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
3150 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3152 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
3153 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
3155 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
3158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
3160 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3162 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
3163 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
3165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
3167 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3169 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
3170 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
3171 right thing. Closes: #150644
3173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
3175 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3177 * Stupid, evil typo.
3178 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
3180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
3182 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3184 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
3187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
3189 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3191 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
3192 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
3193 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
3196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
3198 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3200 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
3202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
3204 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3206 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
3207 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
3209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
3211 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
3213 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
3214 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
3215 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
3218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
3220 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3222 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
3223 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
3225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
3227 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3229 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
3231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
3233 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3235 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
3236 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
3237 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
3239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
3241 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3243 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
3245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
3247 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3249 * Removing perl warning message.
3251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
3253 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
3255 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
3256 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
3257 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
3258 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
3259 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
3260 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
3261 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
3262 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
3263 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
3265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
3267 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
3269 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
3271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
3273 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
3275 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
3278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
3280 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3282 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
3283 debconf-mergetemplate.
3284 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
3285 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
3287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
3289 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3291 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
3292 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
3293 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
3294 dh_install, which ...
3295 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
3296 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
3297 mess, as it uses debian/install.
3298 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
3299 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
3300 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
3301 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
3302 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
3303 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
3304 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
3305 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
3306 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
3307 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
3308 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
3309 other minor changes.
3310 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
3311 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
3312 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
3313 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
3314 course there's -X ..)
3315 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
3316 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
3317 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
3319 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
3320 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
3321 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
3322 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
3323 for woody should continue to use whatever compatibility level they are
3326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
3328 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
3330 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
3332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
3334 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
3336 * Typo, Closes: #139176
3337 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
3339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
3341 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
3343 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
3345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
3347 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
3349 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
3351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
3353 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
3355 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
3357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
3359 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
3361 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
3363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
3365 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
3367 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
3368 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
3369 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
3370 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
3371 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
3373 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
3374 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
3376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
3378 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
3380 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
3382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
3384 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
3386 * Typo, Closes: #132454
3387 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
3389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
3391 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
3393 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
3394 upset. Closes: #131322
3396 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
3398 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
3400 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
3401 what debhelper compatibility level your package uses. It has the big
3402 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
3403 line, as well as in debian/rules.
3404 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
3405 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
3406 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
3407 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
3408 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
3409 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
3410 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
3411 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
3412 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
3413 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
3414 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
3415 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
3417 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
3419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
3421 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
3423 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
3424 - Better indenting of generated code.
3425 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
3427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
3429 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
3431 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
3433 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
3434 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
3435 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
3436 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
3437 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
3438 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
3439 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
3441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
3443 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
3445 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
3446 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
3448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
3450 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
3452 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
3453 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
3454 compatibility in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
3455 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
3456 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
3457 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
3458 compatibility, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
3459 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
3460 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
3461 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
3462 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
3463 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
3464 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
3465 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
3466 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
3467 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
3470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
3472 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3474 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
3476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
3478 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3480 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
3481 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
3482 * fixed dh_testdir man page
3484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
3486 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3488 * Typo, Closes: #122679
3489 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
3490 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
3492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
3494 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3496 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
3498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
3500 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3502 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
3503 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
3504 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
3505 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
3506 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
3507 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
3510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
3512 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
3514 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
3516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
3518 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
3520 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
3521 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
3523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
3525 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
3527 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
3528 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
3531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
3533 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
3535 * Typo, Closes: #114135
3537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
3539 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
3541 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
3542 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
3544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
3546 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
3548 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
3550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
3552 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
3554 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
3556 Also some indentation fixes.
3558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
3560 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
3562 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
3563 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
3564 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
3565 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
3566 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
3567 Closes: #106514, #85520
3569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
3571 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
3573 * Typo, Closes: #104405
3575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
3577 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
3579 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
3581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
3583 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
3585 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
3587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
3589 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3591 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
3593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
3595 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3597 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
3599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
3601 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3603 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
3604 change it in debhelper v4..
3606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
3608 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3610 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
3612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
3614 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3616 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
3617 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
3619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
3621 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3623 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
3624 is not essential. Closes: #100430
3626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
3628 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3630 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
3632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
3634 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3636 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
3637 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
3638 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
3639 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
3640 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
3641 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
3642 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
3643 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
3644 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
3645 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
3646 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
3647 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
3648 prefixed with ".debhelper")
3650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
3652 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3654 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
3655 look just like shared libs, but are not.
3657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
3659 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3661 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
3664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
3666 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3668 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
3669 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
3670 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
3671 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
3672 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
3673 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
3674 program those options go to. So, for example,
3675 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
3676 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
3677 something complex. Closes: #89311
3678 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
3680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
3682 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3684 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
3685 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
3686 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
3687 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
3689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
3691 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3693 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
3694 through loop. Closes: #98598
3696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
3698 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3700 * Missing semi-colon.
3701 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
3702 this (dh_* should be called, really).
3704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
3706 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3708 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
3709 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
3710 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
3711 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
3713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
3715 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3717 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
3718 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
3719 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
3721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
3723 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3725 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
3726 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
3728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
3730 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3732 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
3733 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
3734 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
3736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
3738 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3740 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
3741 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
3742 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
3743 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
3745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
3747 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3749 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
3750 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
3751 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
3752 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
3754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
3756 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3758 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
3759 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
3761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
3763 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3765 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
3767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
3769 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3771 * Typo, Closes: #92407
3773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
3775 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3777 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
3779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
3781 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3783 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
3785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
3787 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3789 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
3790 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
3792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
3794 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3796 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
3797 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
3798 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
3799 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
3800 followed. Closes: #85483
3802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
3804 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3806 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
3807 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
3808 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
3810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
3812 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3814 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
3815 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
3816 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
3817 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
3818 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
3819 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
3820 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
3821 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
3822 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
3823 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
3824 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
3825 Closes: #88464, #77743
3826 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
3827 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
3828 us to deal with that gracefully.
3829 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
3831 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
3832 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
3833 a while, Closes: #51225
3835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
3837 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
3843 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3845 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
3846 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
3848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
3850 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3852 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
3854 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
3857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
3859 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3861 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
3862 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
3863 don't make packlist files.
3864 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
3865 debhelper coding standards.
3866 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
3867 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
3869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
3871 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3873 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
3874 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
3876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
3878 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3880 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
3881 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
3882 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
3883 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
3884 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
3885 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
3886 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatibility,
3887 but is mildly deprecated.
3888 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
3889 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
3890 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
3891 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
3892 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
3893 switching to statoverrides..
3894 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
3895 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
3896 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
3897 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
3898 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
3899 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
3901 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
3902 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
3903 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
3904 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
3905 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
3906 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
3907 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
3908 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
3909 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
3911 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
3912 variable names, pod man pages).
3913 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
3914 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
3915 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
3916 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
3917 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
3918 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
3919 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
3921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
3923 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
3925 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
3927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
3929 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
3931 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
3934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
3936 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
3938 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
3939 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
3941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
3943 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
3945 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
3946 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
3947 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
3949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
3951 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
3953 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
3954 they were previously ignored.
3956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
3958 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
3960 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
3961 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
3963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
3965 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
3967 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
3968 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
3969 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
3971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
3973 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
3975 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
3977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
3979 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
3981 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
3982 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
3984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
3986 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
3988 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
3989 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
3990 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
3991 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
3992 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
3993 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
3994 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
3995 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
3996 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
3997 it is an obsolete program.
3999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
4001 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
4003 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
4005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
4007 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
4009 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
4011 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
4013 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
4015 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
4017 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
4019 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
4021 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
4023 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
4025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
4027 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
4031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
4033 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
4035 * typo: Closes, #78567
4037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
4039 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
4041 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
4043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
4045 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
4047 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
4049 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
4051 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
4053 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
4054 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
4055 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
4056 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
4057 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
4058 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
4060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
4062 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
4064 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
4065 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
4068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
4070 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
4072 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
4073 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
4074 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
4075 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
4076 backwards-compatibility.
4078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
4080 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
4082 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
4083 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatibility:
4084 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
4085 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
4086 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
4087 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
4088 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
4090 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
4091 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
4092 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
4094 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
4096 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
4097 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
4098 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
4099 should now be raised to severity important..
4100 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
4101 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
4103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
4105 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
4107 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
4108 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
4111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
4113 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
4115 * Typo, Closes: #77441
4117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
4119 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
4121 * Completed the fix from the last version.
4123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
4125 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
4127 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
4129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
4131 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
4133 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
4136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
4138 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
4140 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
4141 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
4142 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
4143 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
4144 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
4146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
4148 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
4150 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
4152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
4154 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
4156 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
4157 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
4158 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
4159 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
4160 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
4161 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatibility.
4162 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
4165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
4167 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
4169 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
4170 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
4172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
4174 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
4176 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
4178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
4180 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
4182 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
4183 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
4186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
4188 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
4190 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
4191 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
4192 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
4193 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
4194 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
4196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
4198 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
4200 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
4202 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
4205 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
4207 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
4208 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
4209 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
4212 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
4214 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
4215 the TODO entry about it.
4217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
4219 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
4221 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatibility code.
4224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
4226 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
4228 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
4229 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
4230 prevent that. Closes: #73052
4232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
4234 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
4236 * Typo, Closes: #72932
4237 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
4238 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
4239 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
4240 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
4242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
4244 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
4246 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
4248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
4250 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
4252 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
4255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
4257 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
4259 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
4260 (this appears to be logal).
4262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
4264 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
4266 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
4267 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
4268 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
4269 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
4270 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
4272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
4274 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
4276 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
4278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
4280 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
4282 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
4283 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
4284 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
4285 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
4286 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
4288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
4290 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
4292 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
4294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
4296 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
4298 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
4299 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
4301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
4303 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
4305 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
4308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
4310 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
4312 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
4313 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
4314 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
4315 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
4318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
4320 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
4322 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
4325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
4327 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
4329 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
4331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
4333 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
4335 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
4336 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatibility. That
4337 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
4338 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
4339 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
4340 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
4341 notice until v2 is complete.
4342 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
4343 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
4344 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
4345 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
4346 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
4347 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
4349 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
4350 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
4351 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
4352 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
4354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
4356 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
4358 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
4360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
4362 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
4364 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
4367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
4369 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
4371 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
4372 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
4374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
4376 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
4378 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
4381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
4383 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
4385 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
4386 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
4387 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
4388 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
4389 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
4392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
4394 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
4396 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
4397 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
4398 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
4399 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
4402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
4404 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
4406 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
4407 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
4408 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
4410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
4412 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
4414 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
4415 just skip files that end in -\d+.
4417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
4419 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
4421 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
4422 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
4424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
4426 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
4428 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
4431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
4433 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
4435 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
4436 depend on the build and install targets.
4438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
4440 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
4442 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
4443 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
4445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
4447 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
4449 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
4452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
4454 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
4456 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
4458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
4460 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
4462 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
4464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
4466 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
4468 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
4469 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
4470 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
4471 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
4472 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
4473 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
4474 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
4476 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
4477 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
4478 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
4479 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
4480 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
4481 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
4482 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
4484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
4486 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
4488 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
4490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
4492 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
4494 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
4496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
4498 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
4500 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
4501 right place. Closes: #55065
4503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
4505 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
4507 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
4510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
4512 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
4514 * Make all examples rules files executable.
4515 * Copyright date updates.
4517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
4519 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
4521 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
4522 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
4525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
4527 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
4529 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
4531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
4533 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
4535 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
4538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
4540 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
4542 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
4544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
4546 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
4548 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
4550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
4552 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
4554 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
4556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
4558 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
4560 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
4561 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
4562 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
4563 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
4564 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
4565 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
4566 bits until all files have been registered.
4568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
4570 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
4572 * dh_installmanpages:
4573 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
4574 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
4575 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
4576 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
4577 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
4578 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
4579 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
4580 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
4581 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
4582 otherwise change the result at all.
4584 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
4585 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
4586 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
4587 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
4588 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
4591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
4593 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
4595 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
4597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
4599 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
4601 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
4602 act on files that don't exist.
4603 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
4604 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
4605 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
4607 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
4608 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
4609 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
4610 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
4612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
4614 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
4616 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
4618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
4620 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
4622 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
4624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
4626 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
4628 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
4629 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
4631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
4633 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
4635 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
4636 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
4638 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
4639 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
4640 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
4642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
4644 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
4646 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
4647 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
4648 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
4649 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
4650 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
4651 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
4652 does not compress. Closes: #41733
4653 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
4655 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
4657 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
4659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
4661 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
4663 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
4666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
4668 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
4670 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
4672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
4674 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
4676 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
4678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
4680 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
4682 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
4683 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
4685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
4687 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
4689 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
4691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
4693 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
4695 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
4697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
4699 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
4701 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
4702 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
4703 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
4704 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
4705 I made some changes, though:
4706 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
4707 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
4708 that is a clear violation of policy.
4709 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
4710 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
4711 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
4712 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
4713 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
4714 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
4715 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
4716 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
4717 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
4719 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
4721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
4723 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
4725 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
4727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
4729 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
4731 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
4732 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
4734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
4736 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
4738 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
4739 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
4740 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
4743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
4745 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
4747 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
4749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
4751 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
4753 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
4756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
4758 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
4760 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
4761 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
4762 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
4763 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
4764 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
4765 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
4766 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
4767 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
4769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
4771 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
4773 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
4775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
4777 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
4779 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
4781 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
4782 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
4784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
4786 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
4788 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
4790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
4792 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
4794 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
4795 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
4797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
4799 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
4801 * dh_installdocs: create the compatibility symlink before calling
4802 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
4803 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
4805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
4807 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
4809 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
4812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
4814 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
4816 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
4818 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
4820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
4822 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
4824 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
4825 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
4826 for the dependancies to be generated.
4828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
4830 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
4832 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
4833 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
4835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
4837 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
4839 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
4840 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
4841 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
4842 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
4845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
4847 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
4849 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
4850 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
4851 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
4853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
4855 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
4857 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
4859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
4861 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
4863 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
4865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
4867 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
4869 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
4870 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
4872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
4874 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
4876 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
4878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
4880 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
4882 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
4883 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
4884 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
4885 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
4886 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
4887 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
4888 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatibility symlink to
4889 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
4890 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
4891 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
4892 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
4893 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
4894 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
4896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
4898 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
4900 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
4901 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
4902 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
4904 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
4905 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
4906 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
4907 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
4908 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
4909 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
4911 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
4912 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
4914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
4916 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
4918 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
4919 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
4921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
4923 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
4925 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
4928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
4930 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
4932 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
4933 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
4936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
4938 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
4940 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
4941 for building debhelper.
4942 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
4944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
4946 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
4948 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
4951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
4953 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
4955 * Fixed makefile commit target.
4956 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
4958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
4960 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
4962 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
4963 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
4964 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
4965 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
4966 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
4967 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
4968 it's always available.
4970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
4972 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
4974 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
4975 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
4976 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
4977 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
4979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
4981 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
4983 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
4984 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
4985 modules. (Closes: #42171)
4987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
4989 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
4991 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
4993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
4995 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
4997 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
4998 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
5000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
5002 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
5004 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
5006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
5008 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
5010 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
5011 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
5012 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
5013 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
5015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
5017 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
5019 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
5020 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
5023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
5025 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
5027 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
5028 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
5029 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
5031 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
5032 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
5034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
5036 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
5038 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
5040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
5042 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
5044 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
5046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
5048 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
5050 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
5051 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
5053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
5055 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
5057 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
5058 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
5059 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
5061 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
5063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
5065 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
5067 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
5068 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
5069 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
5070 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
5072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
5074 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
5076 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
5077 things if CDPATH is set.
5079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
5081 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
5083 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
5085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
5087 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
5089 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
5090 seems to make sense for the transition.
5092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
5094 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
5096 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
5097 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
5100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
5102 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
5104 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
5105 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
5106 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
5108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
5110 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
5112 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
5113 that version. (Closes: #40589)
5115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
5117 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
5119 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
5120 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
5121 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
5122 supported compatibility level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
5123 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
5125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
5127 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
5129 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
5131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
5133 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
5135 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
5136 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
5137 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
5138 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
5139 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
5140 * debhelper.1: documented this.
5141 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
5142 current compatibility level is equal to that number.
5143 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
5144 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
5145 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
5148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
5150 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
5152 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
5153 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
5154 * README: mention doc/v2
5155 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
5156 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
5158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
5160 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
5162 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
5163 be using this script RSN.
5165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
5167 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
5169 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
5170 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
5171 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
5172 more than 1 init script.
5174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
5176 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
5178 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
5179 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
5181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
5183 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
5185 * Changed perl version detection.
5186 * Changed call to find.
5188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
5190 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
5192 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
5193 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
5195 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
5198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
5200 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
5202 * Really include dh_installpam.
5204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
5206 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
5208 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
5209 * Wrote man page for same.
5211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
5213 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
5215 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
5216 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
5217 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
5220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
5222 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
5224 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
5227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
5229 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
5231 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
5232 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
5233 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
5234 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
5235 x bit was being set!
5237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
5239 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
5241 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
5242 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
5243 well. (Closes: 38900)
5245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
5247 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
5249 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
5250 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
5251 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
5253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
5255 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
5257 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
5259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
5261 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
5263 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
5266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
5268 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
5270 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
5272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
5274 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
5276 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
5277 help from Julian Gilbey.
5278 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
5279 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
5280 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
5281 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
5282 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
5283 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
5284 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
5287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
5289 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
5291 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
5293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
5295 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
5297 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
5300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
5302 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
5306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
5308 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
5310 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
5312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
5314 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
5316 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
5317 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
5319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
5321 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
5323 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
5324 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
5326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
5328 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
5330 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
5331 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
5333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
5335 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
5337 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
5339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
5341 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
5343 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
5344 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
5346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
5348 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
5350 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
5352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
5354 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
5356 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
5358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
5360 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
5362 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
5363 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
5364 may be deleted. (#35845)
5366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
5368 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
5370 * Various man page enhancements.
5371 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
5374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
5376 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
5378 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
5379 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
5380 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
5382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
5384 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
5386 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
5387 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
5388 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
5389 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
5391 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
5392 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
5395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
5397 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
5399 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
5401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
5403 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
5405 * Another very minor typo fix.
5407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
5409 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
5411 * Very minor typo fix.
5413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
5415 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
5417 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
5418 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
5419 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
5421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
5423 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
5425 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
5427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
5429 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
5431 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
5432 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
5433 variables properly (#34850).
5435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
5437 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
5439 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
5441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
5443 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
5445 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
5446 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
5447 (automatically generated by build process).
5449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
5451 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
5453 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
5455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
5457 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
5459 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
5460 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
5461 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
5463 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
5465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
5467 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
5469 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
5470 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
5472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
5474 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
5476 * README: minor typo fix.
5478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
5480 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
5482 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
5483 leave it at that. :-)
5485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
5487 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
5489 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
5491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
5493 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
5495 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
5497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
5499 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
5501 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
5502 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
5503 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
5504 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
5506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
5508 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
5510 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
5511 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
5513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
5515 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
5517 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
5518 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
5520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
5522 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
5524 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
5525 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
5526 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
5527 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
5528 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
5530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
5532 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
5534 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
5535 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
5536 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
5537 Craig Small for spotting this.
5539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
5541 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
5543 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
5544 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
5545 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
5547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
5549 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
5551 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
5553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
5555 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
5557 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
5558 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
5560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
5562 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
5564 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
5565 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
5566 working on the last version of debhelper.
5568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
5570 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
5572 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
5573 being made. (#23255)
5575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
5577 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
5579 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
5581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
5583 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
5585 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
5586 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
5588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
5590 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
5592 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
5593 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
5594 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
5595 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
5596 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
5598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
5600 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
5602 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
5603 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
5604 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
5605 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
5606 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
5608 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
5609 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
5611 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
5614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
5616 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
5618 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
5620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
5622 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
5624 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
5626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
5628 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
5630 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
5631 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
5632 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
5633 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
5634 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
5635 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
5636 suidregister actually supports it.
5637 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
5638 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
5640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
5642 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
5644 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
5647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
5649 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
5651 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
5652 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
5653 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
5654 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
5655 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
5656 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
5657 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
5658 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
5660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
5662 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
5664 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
5665 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
5667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
5669 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
5671 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
5672 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
5673 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
5674 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
5675 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
5677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
5679 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
5681 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
5682 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
5684 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
5685 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
5686 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
5687 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
5688 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
5689 effect, either. (#30118)
5691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
5693 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
5695 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
5697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
5699 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
5701 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
5702 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
5703 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
5705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
5707 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
5709 * Spelling and typo fixes.
5711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
5713 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
5715 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
5716 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
5717 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
5718 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
5719 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
5721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
5723 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
5725 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
5726 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
5727 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
5729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
5731 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
5733 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
5735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
5737 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
5739 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
5740 packages, painlessly.
5742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
5744 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
5746 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
5748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
5750 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
5752 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
5754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
5756 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
5758 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
5760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
5762 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
5764 * The perl conversion is complete.
5766 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
5768 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
5769 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
5770 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
5773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
5775 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
5777 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
5778 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
5779 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
5780 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
5782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
5784 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
5786 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
5787 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
5789 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
5791 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
5792 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
5794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
5796 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
5798 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
5799 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
5800 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
5802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
5804 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
5806 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
5808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
5810 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
5812 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
5813 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
5814 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
5815 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
5816 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
5817 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
5819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
5821 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
5823 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
5824 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
5825 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
5826 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
5827 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
5829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
5831 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
5833 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
5834 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
5836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
5838 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
5840 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
5841 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
5842 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
5843 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
5844 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
5845 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
5846 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
5847 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
5848 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
5850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
5852 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
5854 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
5856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
5858 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
5860 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
5861 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
5862 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
5863 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
5866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
5868 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
5870 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
5871 line to skip, for backwards compatibility.
5873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
5875 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
5877 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
5878 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
5880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
5882 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
5884 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
5885 sections of shared libraries.
5886 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
5887 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
5888 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
5889 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
5890 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
5891 things you don't want them to.
5892 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
5893 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
5895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
5897 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
5899 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
5900 shared libraries. (#26414)
5902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
5904 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
5906 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
5907 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
5908 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
5909 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
5911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
5913 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
5915 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
5917 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
5919 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
5920 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
5921 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
5922 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
5923 the program to not fail. (#26214)
5925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
5927 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
5929 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
5930 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
5932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
5934 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
5936 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
5937 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
5938 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
5941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
5943 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
5945 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
5946 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
5948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
5950 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
5952 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
5953 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
5954 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
5955 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
5956 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
5957 I apologize for the inconvenience.
5959 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
5960 remove debian/files properly.
5961 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
5962 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
5963 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
5964 * Removed bogus menu file.
5966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
5968 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
5970 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
5971 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
5973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
5975 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
5977 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
5978 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
5979 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
5980 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
5981 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
5982 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
5983 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
5985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
5987 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
5989 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
5990 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
5991 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
5992 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
5993 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
5995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
5997 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
5999 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
6002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
6004 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
6006 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
6007 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
6008 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
6010 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
6011 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
6012 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
6013 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
6014 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
6015 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
6017 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
6019 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
6021 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
6022 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
6023 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
6024 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
6025 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
6026 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
6027 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
6028 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
6029 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
6030 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
6031 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
6032 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
6033 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
6034 passed any switches.
6035 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
6037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
6039 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
6041 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
6042 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
6043 at all for a long while.
6044 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
6045 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
6046 large chunks in the process.
6047 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
6048 install many oddly named files it died on before.
6049 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
6052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
6054 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
6056 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
6057 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
6059 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
6062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
6064 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
6066 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
6067 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
6068 that don't always have the same files in them.
6069 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
6070 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
6071 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
6073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
6075 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
6077 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
6079 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
6080 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
6081 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
6082 updating 27 man pages.
6083 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
6084 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
6085 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
6086 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
6087 programs act on. (#25247)
6089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
6091 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
6095 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
6096 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
6097 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
6098 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
6099 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
6100 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
6103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
6105 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
6107 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
6110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
6112 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
6114 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
6117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
6119 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
6121 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
6122 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
6124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
6126 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
6128 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
6130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
6132 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
6134 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
6135 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
6136 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
6137 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
6138 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
6139 package by accident.
6140 * Is version 1.0 next?
6142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
6144 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
6146 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
6147 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
6148 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
6150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
6152 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
6154 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
6155 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
6156 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
6157 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
6158 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
6159 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
6161 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
6164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
6166 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
6168 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
6169 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
6170 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
6172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
6174 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
6176 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
6177 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
6179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
6181 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
6183 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
6184 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
6185 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
6188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
6190 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
6192 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
6194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
6196 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
6198 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
6199 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
6200 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
6203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
6205 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
6207 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
6209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
6211 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
6213 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
6214 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
6215 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
6216 past week. Thanks, guys!
6218 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
6219 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
6220 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
6221 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
6222 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
6223 would do in the same situation.
6224 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
6225 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
6227 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
6229 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
6230 permissions changed.
6231 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
6232 some people enjoy changing root's name.
6233 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
6234 for backwards compatibility with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
6235 files are treated identically.
6236 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
6237 * Minor man page fixes.
6238 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
6239 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
6240 --no-act is on. (#23054)
6242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
6244 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
6246 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
6247 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
6248 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
6249 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
6250 use -X multiple times, too.
6251 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
6252 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
6254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
6256 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
6258 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
6259 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
6260 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
6262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
6264 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
6266 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
6267 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
6269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
6271 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
6273 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
6274 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
6275 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
6276 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
6277 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
6278 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
6279 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
6280 shape if you're starting a new package.
6282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
6284 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
6286 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
6287 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
6289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
6291 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
6293 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
6294 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
6295 because of missing symlinks.
6297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
6299 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
6301 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
6303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
6305 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
6307 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
6308 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
6309 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
6310 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
6311 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
6312 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
6314 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
6315 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
6317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
6319 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6321 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
6322 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
6323 to be changed after the fact :-)
6324 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
6326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
6328 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6330 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
6331 no version string after the -V.
6333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
6335 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6337 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
6338 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
6341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
6343 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
6345 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
6346 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
6348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
6350 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
6352 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
6353 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
6354 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
6355 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
6356 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
6357 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
6358 I always welcome corrections!
6360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
6362 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
6364 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
6366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
6368 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
6370 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
6371 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
6372 * Documented this new switch.
6374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
6376 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
6378 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
6379 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
6380 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
6381 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
6382 no packages use the old behavior.
6384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
6386 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
6388 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
6389 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
6390 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
6392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
6394 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
6396 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
6397 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
6399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
6401 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
6403 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
6405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
6407 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
6409 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
6410 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
6412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
6414 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
6416 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
6417 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
6418 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
6419 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
6421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
6423 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
6425 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
6427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
6429 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
6431 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
6432 into the source package by accident.
6434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
6436 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
6438 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
6439 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
6440 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
6441 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
6442 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
6443 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
6444 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
6447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
6449 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
6451 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
6453 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
6454 inspired to implement some of it.
6455 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
6457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
6459 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
6461 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
6462 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
6464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
6466 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
6468 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
6469 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
6470 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
6472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
6474 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
6476 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
6477 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
6478 have done.) (#17598)
6480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
6482 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
6484 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
6486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
6488 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
6490 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
6492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
6494 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
6496 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
6497 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
6499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
6501 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
6503 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
6504 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
6505 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
6507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
6509 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
6511 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
6512 argument processor in perl.
6513 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
6514 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
6515 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
6516 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
6518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
6520 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
6522 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
6523 type directories. (#16933)
6524 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
6525 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
6526 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
6527 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
6528 are supported. (#16935)
6529 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
6532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
6534 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
6536 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
6537 This has been broken since version 0.30.
6539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
6541 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
6543 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
6545 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
6546 version requirements in the shlibs file.
6547 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
6548 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
6549 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
6550 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
6552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
6554 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
6556 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
6557 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
6558 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
6560 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
6561 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
6562 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
6563 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
6564 a given package, or -i or -a.
6565 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
6566 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
6567 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
6568 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
6569 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
6570 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
6571 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
6572 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
6573 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
6575 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
6576 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
6577 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
6579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
6581 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
6583 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
6584 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
6585 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
6588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
6590 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
6592 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
6593 does not have a section.
6595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
6597 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
6599 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
6600 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
6601 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
6602 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
6604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
6606 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
6608 * Fixed typo #16215.
6610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
6612 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
6614 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
6615 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
6616 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
6617 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
6618 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
6619 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
6622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
6624 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
6626 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
6627 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
6628 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
6629 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
6632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
6634 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
6636 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
6638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
6640 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
6642 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
6644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
6646 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
6648 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
6649 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
6650 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
6651 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
6652 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
6653 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
6654 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
6656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
6658 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
6660 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
6662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
6664 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
6666 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
6667 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
6669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
6671 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
6673 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
6674 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
6675 the dh_* programs (#15497).
6676 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
6678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
6680 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
6682 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
6683 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
6685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
6687 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
6689 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
6691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
6693 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
6695 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
6696 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
6698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
6700 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
6702 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
6703 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
6705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
6707 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
6709 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
6711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
6713 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
6715 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
6716 postinst, postrm, etc.
6718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
6720 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
6722 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
6724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
6726 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
6728 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
6729 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
6730 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
6731 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
6732 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
6733 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
6735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
6737 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
6739 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
6740 compatibility with debstd's debian/dirs file.
6741 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
6743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
6745 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
6747 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
6748 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
6750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
6752 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
6754 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
6755 installing package files into.
6756 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
6759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
6761 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
6763 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
6765 * Install examples/rules* executable.
6767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
6769 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
6771 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
6773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
6775 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
6777 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
6778 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
6780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
6782 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
6784 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
6785 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
6786 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
6787 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
6788 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
6790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
6792 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
6794 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
6795 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
6796 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
6797 multiple binary packages.
6798 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
6799 should rebuild them with this version.
6800 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
6802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
6804 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
6806 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
6807 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
6809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
6811 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
6813 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
6814 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
6816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
6818 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
6820 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
6821 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
6822 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
6823 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
6824 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
6825 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
6826 debian/README.debian.
6827 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
6828 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
6829 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
6830 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
6831 in a few situations.)
6833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
6835 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
6837 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
6839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
6841 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
6843 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
6845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
6847 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
6849 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
6850 * Fixed several man pages.
6852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
6854 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
6856 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
6857 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
6858 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
6860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
6862 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
6864 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
6865 is ready for general use.
6866 * Added man pages for all commands.
6867 * Multiple binary package support.
6868 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
6869 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
6870 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
6872 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
6873 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
6874 auto-installed as parameters.
6875 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
6877 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
6880 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
6881 the package build directory it is to act on.
6882 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
6883 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
6884 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
6886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
6888 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
6890 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
6891 ready to replace debstd.
6893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400